Hydrogen production through photocatalytic water splitting is being developed swiftly to
address the ongoing energy crisis. Over the past decade, with the rise of graphene and …

Owing to highly peculiar properties such as tunable electronic band gaps and coexistence of
Rashba, excitonic and piezoelectric effects, low-dimensional Janus transition metal …

Stable photocatalysts with excellent optical adsorption and low reaction barrier are the key
for the water splitting. Here, we find that a two-dimensional Janus WSSe monolayer …

Type-II heterostructures constructed from two-dimensional semiconductor materials have
been proved to be an effective way to solve the environmental crisis. In this work, the stability …

To overcome current serious energy and environmental issues, photocatalytic water splitting
holds great promise because it requires only solar energy as an energy input to produce …

Hunting for high-performance photocatalysts to achieve efficient solar conversion is still far
from ideal goals. Here, a kind of Janus structure, ASSiN2 (A= Cr, Mo, W) monolayers, is first …

The intrinsic light–matter characteristics of transition-metal dichalcogenides have not only
been of great scientific interest but have also provided novel opportunities for the …

High energy consumption, rapid increase in its demand and depletion of energy resources
in the world are compelling the researchers for exploration of renewable energy resources …

Two-dimensional (2D) Janus materials exhibit an outstanding potential that can meet the
rigorous requirements of photocatalytic water splitting resulting from their unique atomic …

A novel fixed Z-scheme Ag| AgBr/Ag/TiO 2 photocatalyst composite film is prepared by
continuous ion layer adsorption and sol-gel spin coating methods. Meanwhile, an …